Letters to my friends – Part 2

Malacca mates

Words just aren’t enough for me to express how happy I am to have met all of you and forge such a great bond over a short time. Thank you for putting up with me, especially those who were doing rotation with me when I was PMS-ing. =p. If I could go back and re-live those 8 weeks, I would in a heartbeat. :) I’ll just let the pictures summarize our friendship. :)

Remember our dance??

Our first cooked meal together. =)

 

The birthdays.

RockerONG!

While we were working..

…and while we were playing.. =)

I miss you all :)

Letters to my friends – Part 1

Kaveena

The first person I met on my first day at IMU. Hence the first person I’m going to talk about. I met you right before the registration. And our friendship lasted 4 years. Thank you for putting up with my drama. =) I will miss your art works and your art classes which were usually conducted simultaneously with the lectures we attended. And I will definitely not forget your laughter and the times we spent laughing like crazy in the elabs.

Radhika

You are by far, the most honest,sincere, amazing person that I have ever met. NO, I am not over exaggerating here. You always find the good in others and accept them no matter what. It is rarely I hear that you dislike anyone. You just accept people for who they are, and you embrace that. I am glad that I met you, because by meeting you, I’m learning to accept and embrace others for what they are, and to find the good in them. Jo once called you the angelic one, and I’m not going to argue on that. You’re always the first to hear my drama/gossip and never the one who ‘CNNs’ it. I know I can trust you with my deepest darkest secret. And I know I’ll see you soon! Why? Even sem 7 couldn’t keep us that far apart. Plus, the “Journal Of Gossips” will always be there between us. We’ve shared tonnes of memories, its near impossible that I will forget you unless I get Alzheimer's. It felt good that we graduated together (literally one after the other). THANKS FOR LAYANING ME. :D

Soo Siew Bing

My fellow tutee mate. We’ve been passed from one tutor to another. I began to think we cursed them/they just simply hated us, every tutor we got eventually left IMU (Note: Mr.Vengkatesan, Ms.Chrissy, Dr.Sathvik) until we got tutor No.4 (Dr.Tan Seok Keik), I think she broke the curse. 4 years in IMU, 4 tutors. We managed to leave IMU before she did! :P Always the more responsible one and always the one with who knows what to say to a depressed me. When I really needed you, you had the words for me, but when I asked you to write in my convo mag, you said you don’t know what to write. –.-" Thank you for catching me when I fell numerous times in IMU (figuratively speaking). I will miss our MSN days…and remember the time we spent like hours till midnight working on our first PCP on msn, but got scolded the next day just cause we din fill up the pcp paper (geram kan???) Or during our dispensing practicals in Sem 4, we stayed up till 12 doing Rx screenings via MSN.. :P My MSN chat sessions with you during our early sems were very educational, but somehow it switched to gossip as the semesters progressed! :P I will never forget our “study sessions” in the library.Honestly, you and Dee Dee sat through EOS and graduation together with me and that made it all even more special. My 2 close friends, enduring exams together, and graduating together! :) And yes, your subscription to the “Journal of Gossips” has been re-newed. =D

Tan Mei Mei

Mimi - the quiet one - the blinking one. But you soon warmed up..thanks for everything, always so calm and not stressed next to stressed SSB. You guys memang cute la!!! I will miss you now that you are back in Miri, and 1 day, I’ll pay you a visit!! I do believe we can still exchange stories abt Handsome and Pumpkin and we shall forward them to SSB just to annoy her, but I heard she is really bored now at Sarikei, so our stories will be her entertainment! Also, thanks for supplying me with ‘Fruit Ninja’ – the stress reliever during Sem 8’s EOS. You brought Neslo into my life,the one at the library cafe does not taste like what we used to drink during Sem 6. =(

And Mimi, do you remember this?and who they were suppose to be??? =p

Joanne Ong Yen Nee

JOANNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll definitely be missing ur blur moments and also ur Jo moments (always dropping stuff =P). You always sided with me and we used to annoy Vee Vee and Dee Dee together. Hire a PA as Dee Dee/Vee Vee and I will no longer be around to tell you what's happening k?? :) Enjoy ur Bali trip! :)

Chai Yen

Always quiet and hardworking. You will always copy everything the lecturer says in class, I still wonder how you manage to do that. Thanks for making sure our notes were always ready! :) I will miss you, and miss telling you all my interesting stories.. :P Thanks for the gift. When I read what you wrote, I had a flash back moment to the times we shared. :)

Teh Khai Mei

As you said it yourself, when we started sem 7, we did not expect to become as close as we have become. You know, after I signed up for our Sem 7 project, I never stopped wondering if I made the correct choice, but looking back, that choice earned me 2 new amazing friends, 2 big brothers and an amazing experience.  So now I know, I did make the correct choice. :) Thanks for “twinkle”, although Pumpkin does not like it, I’m grateful for it as now I can get rid of my backaches. You were always the healthy one, always the wise one, and always the mature one. And I never knew we could gossip SO MUCH!!! I will definitely be exchanging emails with you regarding certain “special” people and topics. I’ve travelled more around KL by foot with you and Huey Chin and I’m grateful for all those experience and times we spent walking from HKL to the LRT station, and thanks to you guys, I learnt to walk super fast! :P

p/s: I’ll be waiting for your wedding invitation. :D

Ong Huey Chin

Siao Za Bo!!!! You are a funny person – and I mean that in a good way. :) Thanks for making sem7 a fun one. We endured the same “nice” and “unbiased” experience since we were always together (you know what I’m talking about la kan??). Good thing that we were there for each other and thanks for backing me up when I needed it. I will miss lining up outside the HKL MTAC and interviewing patients with you and kmei. I still remember the time we crashed Kmei’s place to teman her wait for her bags to be delivered and bergossip about everything under the sun! You also always seem to take note of my clothes and shoes and is always the first to detect if I’m wearing something new.hehe.. If I ever get posted to near your “kawasan” please write for me a survival guide!! *heart* you!!! :)

 

Thanks for the memories!

 

The tale of the brownies, the hand phone and the movies

I made this today:

  It had loads of chocolate chips and chunks and it was really sweet ( I have a sweet tooth), but what I really like about it was the fact that it was chewy!!! I love chewy brownies, not those cakey ones!! brownies are meant to be chewy OK! (excuse the unprofessional photo cause I suck at photography)

From brownies to phones.

I’ve been in a dilemma for some time now, torn between HTC Desire HD and I phone 4. I wanted I phone 5, but I’m not sure if I’m patient enough to wait until it is released. So I’ve been watching videos on YouTube where they compare HTC and I phone and some say HTC is better and some say I phone is better, most people I asked said that I phone is better but then again, they are also I phone users, so I must take into account the biasness. *sighs* One day I wake up deciding on HTC, the next day I tell myself its gonna be I phone, and the next day it’s back to HTC. Yes, I’m crazily fickle minded. So, I shall continue to ponder upon it…

HTC Desire HD

or I Phone 4???

 

Apart from baking brownies and thinking about which phone to get, last week I watched 3 movies; Priest (don’t watch), POTC 4 (not amazing,but OK lah), Insidious (IT WAS CRAZY-AMAZING!!! and yes, I’m being biased =p) I think I’ve been deprived of awesome horror movies for sometime, and I missed them. I’m the girl who as a kid watched ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’, ‘Omen’ (and its related movies e.g: Omen 2,3, etc..), Psycho ( and psycho 2,3), Silence of the Lambs, Exorcist, It( which not scary AT ALL if you watch it now, but for a 6 year old it WAS! I’m just glad I did not develop any phobia for clowns) and the list goes on. But recently the horror movies have lost it touch but Insidious was so awesome for me, it restored my faith!  Good horror movies aren’t extinct yet!! :)

A bored ewok!

The Happy Girl

Behold the goodies from Phuket! :D

Thanks to Teh Khai Mei, Ong Huey Chin and Hii Ling Wei. =)

I decided to go for the J Card member day thingy at Jusco Wangsa Maju but when I reached there around 11am, the cars we parked till outside of the building and I was in no mood for war with the other customers there, so I decided to venture off to Wangsa Walk Mall (WWM).

What did I get there??

I got these babies!!

Yes, I am a very happy girl! :)

Death by boredom?

I’m suppose to be enjoying the holidays which have been blessed upon me before my “working life” begins, but I’ve been at home a while and I’m super bored with life.

My weak attempts to make my holiday interesting have failed.

Yes, I have a tonne of books to read, shows to watch, but still I feel so unproductive staying at home.

What have I done since I last blogged? Nothing much, had dinner with some people whom I’m probably not gonna see more often in the coming future (sad), ran around KL with Papa and aunt to settle some property deal my aunt had, then ran around KL with Papa and Mom to help Mom settle her property issues, went to Ipoh, had a movie date with Mom…and yea, that is pretty much it!

Yes, I know – BORING.

And I already bought my convo clothes, but now I’m having second thoughts about it, so I’m gonna prepare two other outfits and see which one I feel like wearing on the day! :)

I’m planning on making some brownies soon too. We’ll see how that goes.

And for those of you following AI10 – JAMES DURBIN SHOULD NOT HAVE GONE!!! Now I’m rooting for Haley. Hope she wins, if she gets voted off this week, I’m not going to watch the finale next week!!

I’ve also decided to stop watching Sherlock after watching the first 30 minutes of the pilot. Sorry, but I did not find it interesting!

With shows ending their seasons (e.g.: Gossip Girl, TVD) I think I will be having more free time than what I already have. *huge sigh* But thank GOD the summer movies are opening soon (Fri : me hoping to watch Pirates!).

M gonna watch the latest Glee episode now! :)

A tribute to parents everywhere

Mother. Mummy. Mom. Mama. Amma. Daddy. Papa. Pops. Appa.

Many ways of calling two people.

The same people who impacted our lives in a magnificent way.

A way no other duo can.

They do not necessarily have to be your biological parents. They just has to be the ones who raised you up.

With Mother’s Day approaching, all restaurants are fully booked, I predict tomorrow will be a chaotic day for any restaurant. Florists will cash in on it, (just like how they do on Valentines) malls will be packed, everyone will be busy focusing on one person – Mummy.

Then I started thinking, why do we need ONE day to celebrate her? I think it is a mockery to Mothers everywhere that after all they’ve done, they only get one day a year to celebrate their efforts.

Shouldn’t everyday be mother’s day?

Forget Mother’s Day, PARENTS are who we should be thanking. (I’m aware of the existence of Parent’s Day by the way)

Shouldn’t we thank them everyday?

I’m not a parent, but I think (based on my observations), that parents go a great deal to make their children happy. And they do it every single day. And for that, a day is unacceptable. They need to be thanked on a daily basis – as their job as parents is an everyday thing. Not a once a year thing.

I’m sure, some of you may just scoff this off and go, “I had horrible parents”. But before you continue that negativity against your parents, please remember that they are also people. They are as human as you and I, which makes them as imperfect as you and I. But that is what makes us all perfect. It is our imperfections which make us indefinable and unique people. We are perfect because of our imperfections. And so are our parents. We must forgive them for the harm/pain that they have inflicted upon us because in their eyes, that is the best that they can do for us. They were parenting us based on the mistakes and lessons they learnt from their parents, and that is how we are probably going to do as well. These days we have self-help books on parenting to help us out. So in a way, we are getting “extra help”. But they did not.

We should appreciate them for all that they have given, taught and done to us. We are who we are, and we have grown into this person, because of them. For those whose parents inflicted emotional pain/ torture, because of what they did you are now a stronger person, they indirectly made you a stronger person and you know better than to do the same to your child in the future, and you should thank them for that lesson in parenting.

Tomorrow, everyone will be celebrating mothers all around the world. I will definitely join in the celebration to thank my mother. But I will also make a mental note that the celebration does not end when the day ends tomorrow. It is an all-year-round celebration! I think we all need to change the way we see things. =)

To parents everywhere – THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME!

p/s: this tribute is not applicable for parents who abuse their children. I don’t support child abuse.